Friday, July 22, 2016

Christmas in July

You hear that phrase quite a bit - Christmas in July, right? Well, this year I actually sewed ahead of schedule for the holiday season. This beautiful tree skirt is for Kaitlyn and Jake and will be perfect in their home for the Christmas season. By the way, can you believe it is almost their one year anniversary? See wedding details here

Kaitlyn had purchased the fabric and her intention was to get it finished for last Christmas. Her life is very busy.....a full-time student, part-time worker and newlywed which meant the tree skirt had to wait.

Enter Mom and her vow in March to work through the quilting fabric and projects, which this tree skirt qualified, the fabric was residing at my house.

One suggestion would be to use a wider variety of fabrics, I had to lay this one out and make sure I didn't have any fabrics next to one another. The pattern calls for 21 - 1/3 yard cuts, which gives a nice variety. For Kaitlyn's tree skirt, I only had 5 fabrics to use.

Isn't that reindeer fabric the cutest? I used it on the back of her tree skirt and the binding is leftover from her Christmas quilt, which Kaitlyn made.

I need to go and buy some Christmas fabric and replace my very old tree skirt which was a hand-me-down to begin with. Maybe I will try to do that before December!

Christmas in July is fun but we all know it will be here before we know it!